Question

Simplify by combining like terms:
5a + 2b - 3a + 4


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Answer 1

2a + 2b + 4

Explanation:

5a + 2b + -3a + 4

5a + -3a

2a + 2b + 4

Answer 2

To simplify, we can only combine what are called our like terms.

In this problem, we just have

a pair of like terms in our a terms.

Let's start by combining our a terms.

5a - 3a simplifies to 2a.

So we have 2a + 2b + 4 which is our final answer.